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Socrates attacks this position with equal or greater force . He tells Callicles that this life of selfish ambition , seeking the satisfaction of every desire as it arises , is ' an unending round of evils , the life of a robber and an ...
Socrates attacks this position with equal or greater force . He tells Callicles that this life of selfish ambition , seeking the satisfaction of every desire as it arises , is ' an unending round of evils , the life of a robber and an ...
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And the construction of machine tools means enlisting the tremendous forces provided by Nature . The first forces to be utilized are the passive forces of weight and pressure exerted in the natural motions of air and water — the wind ...
And the construction of machine tools means enlisting the tremendous forces provided by Nature . The first forces to be utilized are the passive forces of weight and pressure exerted in the natural motions of air and water — the wind ...
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It was , perhaps , not the fault of the philosophers that the ancients had so few machines driven by non - human force . The simple fact is that power for anything that could be called large - scale industry was then supplied by slaves ...
It was , perhaps , not the fault of the philosophers that the ancients had so few machines driven by non - human force . The simple fact is that power for anything that could be called large - scale industry was then supplied by slaves ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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